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Skinner Hits Exclusive Mark

<p>Jeff Skinner, the Carolina Hurricanes &lsquo;super&rsquo; rookie, hit a pretty nice mark last night in lodging his 30th goal of the season. Now rookies do score 30 goals, it happens, it&rsquo;s great but it does happen enough that it&rsquo;s not a huge shock. In 80 games this year, the rookie has 59 points. What&rsquo;s special about what Skinner did, aside from the fact that he&rsquo;s doing it essentially alone in Carolina on their second line, is Skinner&rsquo;s age. He became the 7th youngest player in history to reach 30 goals. That IS impressive. Skinner accomplished the feat in 18 years and 325 days. To put into perspective what he&rsquo;s accomplished, check out the only guys to score 30 faster than he did. </p><p>Brian Bellows 18 years, 196 days</p><p>Sidney Crosby 18 years, 217 days</p><p>Jimmy Carson 18 years, 244 days</p><p>Bob Carpenter 18 years, 248 days</p><p>Steve Yzerman 18 years, 272 days</p><p>Dale Hawerchuk 18 years, 308 days</p><p>Pretty nice company! Scary to think about what some of the guys above have gone on to do and then think about what Skinner will do as he grows into his prime and Carolina gets some more talent around him. </p><p>Posted for partner site: hockeyhotchicks </p>

Jeff Skinner, the Carolina Hurricanes ‘super’ rookie, hit a pretty nice mark last night in lodging his 30th goal of the season. Now rookies do score 30 goals, it happens, it’s great but it does happen enough that it’s not a huge shock. In 80 games this year, the rookie has 59 points. What’s special about what Skinner did, aside from the fact that he’s doing it essentially alone in Carolina on their second line, is Skinner’s age. He became the 7th youngest player in history to reach 30 goals. That IS impressive. Skinner accomplished the feat in 18 years and 325 days. To put into perspective what he’s accomplished, check out the only guys to score 30 faster than he did.

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